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CWmike writes "Ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought that it simply couldn't get any better? Well, think again. A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working on helping Joe Six Pack fight aging and cancer with every swill of beer." Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.

1) Betting you've never lived in France2) 13% of MacDonalds' revenue comes from France, its the biggest market outside of the US3) The french traditional foods are high fat (lots of cream) not potatoes and stews, that is Germany and its ilk4) They drink wine like people in the US drink Coke, its just what you do and its perfectly normal5) They smoke

Seriously if you are going to have a go at the French Paradox then get some sort of perspective on what they eat. Its loads of "McDo" and then rich meals with Duck, cream and the like. "Stew" and potatoes I've hardly ever had. Beans in a rich tomato sauce with meat, yup had that, but its hard to call it "stew". The French don't exercise much, although they do walk around more and do things more on the weekend than is "normal" in the US, this doesn't make them exercise freaks though.

The French Paradox of smoke, eat rich food and drink wine might not be down to the wine, but its certainly not down to them eating a German/Hungarian mix of potato and stew.

The real French paradox is how come the women all dress like the most stylish people on the planet and yet the blokes all wear jumpers that look like an aunt knitted them for Christmas.

Um, if you have a sip of Budweiser, it's the same nasty half-rice, half-wheat beer-like substance that it was in 1978. The majority of Americans still drink that swill and like it.

On the other hand, there's decent US brewers like Fat Tire, Rogue and Goose Island, and great brews from other brewers like Surly Darkness (I'm not a big bitter fan, so I'll pass on most of their other beers, but that one is good - and VERY expensive - cost me $20 to buy one off a friend, and I think they sold for something like 6/$100), and Stone (Imperial Russian Stout is yummy - got that one at a beer festival and never saw it again).

I still have yet to find a decent 'black' from the US. Some like Sprecher are ok, but don't come close to a German black (e.g. Kostritzer). I also haven't found a decent US 'sweet' wheat (hard to describe - sorta like drinking King's Hawaiian Bread, but lighter and less heavy than you would think) like some German and Belgian brews - the US tends to make wheat beers as bitter as possible. I'm not a fan of Pils or IPA, mainly because I'm highly sensitive to bitter, so I can't comment on those.